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cities where you can pay for transit with a tap of a credit card. It's so freeing!
Yay for Marseille and Vancouver! Montreal when?
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Anyone in the Portland area who uses #TriMet care to Test Flight my app? It’s a re-write of the currently shipping version of PDX Transit however it is now 100% SwiftUI and uses Swift Data and Swift Concurrency — includes App Shortcuts, Widgets, & a SwiftUI version of PDX Transit for Apple Watch. Also has fun things like on device translations for service alerts and look around in Maps. Unlike the previous version, it has an iPad optimized layout too.
#pdxtransit #portland #publictransit
Ding dong... doors closing.
This is a Chicago Transit Authority train to nowhere.
This line is closed due to a lack of funding for public transit in specific and public goods in general by the American government at all levels.
Informal transport moves millions, yet it’s often overlooked in policy. Today, the ITF hosts a webinar on maximizing its benefits while addressing challenges.
via linkedin @itf-international-transport-forum
https://www.itf-oecd.org/incorporating-informal-transport-mobility-planning
Denied service on the Heleon Bus Route 90
In Naalehu, at 3:52am
A national union for boda boda and tuk-tuk operators in Kenya’s transport sector. When informal networks organize, they become stronger—and so does urban mobility.
via xitter @tv47news
TV47 Digital · One patron, one union, one future: Bodaboda & Tuk-tuk operators unite under new national body - TV47 DigitalKenya’s informal transport sector has entered a new era with the official launch of the Boda Boda and Tuk Tuk Transport Cooperative Union of Kenya—a national umbrella body uniting over 35 transport associations, 410 saccos, and millions of operators.
I *really* don't like these Veo scooters in my city. Everything from having public transit provided by a private company, to the fact you have to download an app to use them, to the fact people leave them in the worst places (as shown here) annoys me.
Yikes. @shawnmicallef.bsky.social shares rumour the TTC’s terrible ex-CEO Rick Leary could be the new CEO of Metrolinx.
He’ll do whatever Queen’s Park tells him to do, including starve the agency. So much for expanded regional transit and on-time performance?
#TTC #Metrolinx #TOPoli #Transit #PublicTransit
https://bsky.app/profile/shawnmicallef.bsky.social/post/3ll2td3qyfc2f
Bluesky Social · Shawn Micallef (@shawnmicallef.bsky.social)Heard a rumour (*rumour*) Ontario thinking of Leary for metrolinx head.
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I had to get 
CREATIVE on getting the sub sequence of transit stops for a Leg from when you’re supposed to board and then exit.
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Happily, #GrandRiverTransit has just increased bus service, at least where I live. Longer hours, weekend service, but not more frequent service; but 30 minutes per bus in rural areas seems pretty good to me.
Now, if only we could get the LRT extended to Cambridge.
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The info about Ottawa's BRT upgradability and capacity stats came from the document I linked to: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp90v1_cs/Ottawa.pdf ; a 2003 report from the Transportation Research Board
My comment on Ottawa's LRT problems is strictly my own uninformed opinion.
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You may be right about Ottawa's BRT capacity. It was designed to be upgradable to rail (clearances, structural load bearing), and the BRT reached 90% capacity in 1996 for the number of *buses* used (180/hr), not for the number of passengers transported (it's been a decade since I learned this stuff, haven't researched since)
https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp90v1_cs/Ottawa.pdf (2003)
And you're absolutely right that Ottawa's LRT didn't need to have the problems it has!
My wife and son are off on a grand trip... and I am jealous, not for the beach they're going to (ok, a little) but for the -- apparently -- brand new transit bus they're riding right now from the Tsawwassen Ferry to Bridgeport station near #YVR! (#620)
We usually travel to Horseshoe Bay terminal and take transit (often articulated #255) in to downtown Vancouver from there.
Charging ports and Reading lights on a double decker bus!!?? WHAAT!
please use my invite to Transportation Justice: How Infrastructure Can Divide and Unite, a webinar by the NYU Law Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, a conversation between Prof. Deborah Archer (also President of the ACLU) and Prof. Kenji Yoshino (the man who taught me everything I know about Constitutional Law).
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G8h9QRpnQf2BBVN2_i42AQ#/registration
ZoomWelcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Transportation Justice: How Infrastructure Can Divide and Unite. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.The U.S. economy depends on transportation infrastructure—roads, highways, airports, subways—to keep it afloat. And for many years, Americans have been frustrated by the nation’s dangerous potholes, aging bridges, and unaffordable rail projects.
As politicians turn to fixing these problems, acclaimed NYU Law legal scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer urges us to examine the role that transportation infrastructure plays in racial segregation, isolation, and exclusion. For decades, government officials have used such infrastructure to keep Americans divided, as by building multi-lane roads with no pedestrian crossings along the border of wealthy white neighborhoods to make it hard for people from low-income communities to visit, or by refusing to extend sidewalks from Black communities into white ones.
Join Professor Archer for a discussion of her new book Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality with Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. As the nation repairs its crumbling infrastructure, Professor Archer’s call for “transportation justice” is an urgent and necessary one to heed.
All attendees of this event will enter a raffle to receive a copy of Dividing Lines.
This event is part of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging speaker series and is cosponsored by the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center and the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law. The speaker series sponsors can be found at: www.law.nyu.edu/centers/belonging/supporters/speakerseries
Note on Accessibility: This virtual event requires an Internet connection and computer or smartphone. Live captioning is available for this event. For any questions and/or requests for accommodations, please email Mindy.Darwish@nyu.edu 5-7 business days in advance of the event date.
These iPad Lockscreen #WidgetKit widgets for PDX Transit have been fun to build too! :) There are two: one with shortcuts to the app and another showing your top 4 bookmarks.
Wallpaper from @BasicAppleGuy which is also the default wallpaper included in the original iPad with Retina display.
Appreciating the welcome view here on Mastodon! Since transportation is what brings people together—literally and figuratively—let’s talk infrastructure.
What’s one transportation project (big or small) that’s made a real difference in your community? Would love to hear what’s working and what still needs improvement
#Infrastructure #PublicTransit #Transportation #SmartCities #HighSpeedRail #EVs #UrbanPlanning #Mobility #Sustainability #ClimateAction
I ended up adding the large size widget for the single transit stop widget which links you to its service alerts in the app. I’m happy with these. 
"Meet this 11-year-old boy who is an expert in all things TTC" - CP24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kwKAjeEB2s
You can buy Luis-Mario Carrington's book about TTC buses from CodeRedTO and transit supporter Spacing: https://spacingstore.ca/products/have-you-seen-a-ttc-bus
Hey #ottawa
There is a transit symposium March 27th, with an evening keynote by Anna Zivarts at the new OttawaU sciences Center by Lees station and a full day at the NAC March 28th. I want want to be able to live and have quality of life in this city as a no-car household #ottbike #publictransit https://envirocentre.ca/who-is-anna-zivarts-and-why-her-ideas-on-transit-matter-for-ottawa/
EnviroCentre · Who is Anna Zivarts, and why her ideas on transit matter for Ottawa - EnviroCentreA great transit system isn’t just about getting from point A to B—it’s about equity, accessibility, and sustainability. That’s why, at this year’s EnviroCentre Annual Symposium, Connecting the Dots on Transit, we’re bringing together bold thinkers and change-makers to explore how we can build a transit system that works for everyone.
I learned a lot about using #WidgetKit these past 8 days. I created two types of Widgets for #PDXTransit based on the bookmarks you save in the app Still tweaking the UI though but you get the idea.
